19.2% Efficient InP Heterojunction Solar Cell with Electron-Selective TiO2 Contact

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1245-1250

  Yin, Xingtian ^a,b,c   Battaglia, Corsin ^a,b   Lin, Yongjing ^a,b   Chen, Kevin ^a,b   Hettick, Mark ^a,b   Zheng, Maxwell ^a,b   Chen, Cheng Ying ^a,b   Kiriya, Daisuke ^a,b   Javey, Ali ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

InP photovoltaics, titanium dioxide, heterojunctions, selective contact

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; HYDROGEN PLASMA TREATMENTS; LONG WAVELENGTH; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SELECTIVE CONTACTS; ULTRATHIN LAYERS; VALENCE BAND OFFSETS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84922341656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500153c     Document Type: Article

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